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parcmètre

French, noun\paʁk.mɛtʁ\

parcmètre is spelled P-A-R-C-M-È-T-R-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 133,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Parcmètre is a French masculine noun meaning “parking meter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Appareil installé sur un trottoir servant à mesurer, et souvent à payer, le temps de stationnement d’une…”.

What does parcmètre mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineparking meter

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Appareil installé sur un trottoir servant à mesurer, et souvent à payer, le temps de stationnement d’une automobile.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of parcmètre

  • parcmètres plural
  • parcomètre

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce parcmètre?

  • \paʁk.mɛtʁ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is parcmètre in French?

parcmètre appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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